Luke Donald secured his first win of the year by defending his title at the Dunlop Phoenix tournament in Japan.
The 35-year-old Englishman started the final round with a two-shot lead over South Korea's Kim Hyung-Sung after following his two-over-par 73 in the first round with scores of 66 and 65.
And there were few scares at the Phoenix Country Club course on Sunday as a five-under 66, which featured seven birdies and two bogeys, took him to 14-under 270, six shots clear of Kim who could only manage a one-under 70.
Japan's Shingo Katayama finished third on seven under, while Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano and Shunsuke Sonoda of Japan shared fourth place three shots further back.
Japan Tour money leader Hideki Matsuyama, 21, was bunched one stroke further back with Australian Brad Kennedy and South Korea's Lee Kyoung-Hoon.
"I'm very excited. My last win as a professional was last year at the Dunlop," Donald said.
"It's great to come here and win again. This is a great tournament with some great winners and I'm very proud to have won it back-to-back now."
Donald is the first player to win the Dunlop, one of Japan's richest tournaments, for two straight years since Tiger Woods triumphed in 2004 and 2005.
Collated final-round scores:
(Jpn unless stated, par 71):
| 270 |
Luke
Donald (Eng)
|
73 66 65 66 |
| 276 |
Hyung-sung
Kim (Kor)
|
69 70 67 70 |
| 277 |
Shingo
Katayama
|
69 74 69 65 |
| 280 |
Shunsuke
Sonoda
|
70 73 68 69 |
| Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) | 73 69 71 67 | |
| 281 |
Hideki
Matsuyama
|
71 71 69 70 |
| Kyoung-hoon Lee | 73 70 72 66 | |
| Brad Kennedy (Aus) | 71 72 67 71 | |
| 282 |
Han
Lee (USA)
|
75 67 68 72 |
| 283 |
Yoshinobu
Tsukada
|
68 71 75 69 |
| Yoshinori Fujimoto | 74 70 73 66 | |
| Hiroshi Iwata | 73 69 68 73 | |
| Kyung-Tae Kim (Kor) | 72 71 70 70 | |
| 284 |
Koumei
Oda
|
69 74 68 73 |
| Kazuhiko Hosokawa | 73 69 71 71 | |
| Yosuke Tsukada | 71 74 74 65 | |
| Toshinori Muto | 74 72 69 69 | |
| Billy Horschel (USA) | 71 76 71 66 | |
| 285 |
Kunihiro
Kamii
|
74 68 70 73 |
| Sung-joon Park | 71 68 71 75 | |
| Yusaku Miyazato | 70 72 73 70 | |
| 286 |
Keiichiro
Fukabori
|
71 74 69 72 |
| Tomohiro Kondo | 72 72 70 72 | |
| Ho-sung Choi (Kor) | 71 72 71 72 | |
| Kazuhiro Yamashita | 67 74 73 72 | |
| Kurt Barnes (Aus) | 74 70 72 70 | |
| 287 |
Kiyoshi
Miyazato
|
72 70 77 68 |
| Ryuichi Oda | 72 68 74 73 | |
| Akio Sadakata | 71 72 72 72 | |
| Yuta Ikeda | 76 72 70 69 | |
| 288 |
Hiroo
Kawai
|
73 71 74 70 |
| Kaname Yokoo | 71 70 73 74 | |
| J.B. Holmes (USA) | 79 70 73 66 | |
| Azuma Yano | 75 71 73 69 | |
| Kenichi Kuboya | 71 73 70 74 | |
| 289 |
Shigeru
Nonaka
|
75 72 74 68 |
| Tommy Fleetwood (Eng) | 71 71 75 72 | |
| Ryutaro Nagano | 71 70 74 74 | |
| Masanori Kobayashi | 74 75 70 70 | |
| Charlie Beljan (USA) | 75 72 72 70 | |
| 290 |
Keegan
Bradley (USA)
|
73 72 69 76 |
| Koichiro Kawano | 75 72 69 74 | |
| Yui Ueda | 74 73 74 69 | |
| 291 |
David
Smail (Nzl)
|
73 73 73 72 |
| 292 |
Katsumasa
Miyamoto
|
73 69 74 76 |
| Juvic Pagunsan (Phi) | 71 76 70 75 | |
| Tadahiro Takayama | 73 71 74 74 | |
| Tetsuji Hiratsuka | 73 71 72 76 | |
| Steven Conran (Aus) | 71 76 74 71 | |
| 293 |
Jung-Gon
Hwang (Kor)
|
72 76 74 71 |
| Min-gyu Cho (Kor) | 72 72 76 73 | |
| Taichi Teshima | 73 75 71 74 | |
| 294 |
Tommy
Nakajima
|
70 73 80 71 |
| Dong-kyu Jang (Kor) | 72 77 72 73 | |
| 295 |
Masahiro
Kawamura
|
75 74 71 75 |
| Satoshi Kodaira | 74 73 73 75 | |
| 296 |
Hidemasa
Hoshino
|
78 71 69 78 |
| 297 |
Sushi
Ishigaki
|
78 71 73 75 |
| J B Park (Kor) | 72 72 79 74 | |
| Yoshikazu Haku | 74 72 75 76 | |
| 298 |
Takashi
Kanemoto
|
73 76 73 76 |
| Jay Choi (Kor) | 72 75 75 76 | |
| Yuji Igarashi | 75 74 72 77 | |
| Sung-yoon Kim (Kor) | 73 74 71 80 | |
| 299 |
Norio
Shinozaki
|
70 79 77 73 |
| 300 |
Hirohito
Koizumi
|
72 77 71 80 |
| 302 |
Eun
shin Park (Kor)
|
78 70 78 76 |
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